Mailing Address
Humanities Center
California State University, Chico
400 W. First St.
Chico, CA 95929–0800

Contact the Director
Erin K. Kelly
ekkelly@csuchico.edu

Works-In-Progress Series

Troy Jollimore, “Love and Truth”

Friday, October 4th

12:00 PM, Humanities Center, PAC 113

Troy Jollimore sitting in front of a gray screen.

Troy Jollimore earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1999. He is the author of three philosophical books, including Love’s Vision and On Loyalty, and the editor of The Virtue of Loyalty, published earlier this year. His articles and reviews have appeared in several anthologies, including the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Love, the Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy, and the Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Friendship, and in journals including Ethics, Synthese, and Canadian Journal of Philosophy. He has also published four collections of poetry, for which he has received a National Book Critics Circle award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a former External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, and he was CSU Chico’s Outstanding Professor for AY 2009-2010.

Works-In-Progress: Michelle Rose

Friday, November 1st

12:00 PM, Humanities Center, PAC 113

Michelle Rose in a red shirt and black jacket, standing in front of bookshelves.

Michelle Rose is faculty in the Political Science and Criminal Justice Department.

Works-In-Progress: Jed Wyrick

Friday, December 6th

12:00 PM, Humanities Center, PAC 113

Jed Wyrick smiling in front of a gray background.

Jed Wyrick is faculty in the Comparative Religion and Humanities Department.

2024-2025 Theme: Ghosts and Haunting: The Persistence of the Past

The past does not simply stay in the past. Sometimes, what we thought we forgot or hoped to forget, reappears in the present to haunt us. Cultures around the world have traditions and stories about haunted places and the existence of ghosts and spirits that allow us to preserve cultural memory, process trauma, and explore ideas about the existence of an afterlife. Ghosts and hauntings reveal the power of memory and storytelling and can reflect our nostalgia for what is gone or heighten our fear of the unknown.

The Humanities Center is the interdisciplinary heart of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. Our purpose is to create and nurture a culture of ideas at Chico State and to engage our diverse intellectual community through public events. During the 2024-25 year, the Humanities Center will host a series of lectures and films exploring the ghosts and haunted places that stay with us in the present.

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